Harriet Tubman and America’s Immigration Hypocrisy
Harriet Tubman and America’s Immigration Hypocrisy
*I loved the parallel made between Harriet Tubman and today’s immigrants. It takes the writer about six paragraphs to get to the point, but once she does, it’s a good […]
the Latino daily – Your Thursday morning brief
THURSDAY, April 28, 2016 Good morning Taquistas! Here’s your morning news to get your day started. ►Thursday’s numbers 11.5 – The percentage of less likelihood that U.S. Latino workers will […]
Trump can’t get to the White House without the Latino vote
*As Donald Trump solidifies his place as the GOP presidential nominee, let’s keep this in mind. VL By Enrique Acevedo, Fusion Over the past two decades the Latino vote has grown […]
the Latino daily – Your Wednesday morning brief
TUESDAY, April 27, 2016 Good morning Taquistas! It’s storming in South Texas as I begin this – a wonderful show, lightening, rain, thunder, hail . . . Let’s get started […]
Orange County activists want to unite Arabs and Latinos to build political voting influence
*Here’s something different. Think it’ll work? VL By Erika Aguilar, KCBX Santa Ana high school cultural ethnics and history teacher Ben Vazquez, 45, invites guests on the food tour in […]
Sotomayor accuses colleagues of trying to ‘wish away’ racial inequality
*Justice Sonia Sotomayor went to the mat to counter Justice Roberts’ well known adage that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on […]
The Latino daily – Your Friday morning brief
FRIDAY, April 22, 2016 Good morning Taquistas! It’s Fiesta Friday in San Antonio, lots of folks in the city have the day off and I’m writing this anticipating a good […]
Congressmen introduce bill to bring back deported veterans
*It’s about time. VL By Rebekah Sager, Fox News Latino Representative Ruben Gallego and a group of veteran members of Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday that could help deported veterans […]
Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos
*Take away: “place matters in identifying the most vulnerable populations” to climate change. Read this piece. Inner cities, where most U.S. Latinos live and work, are heat islands, paved-over, radiating […]
Racial Awakening, Pride And Fear: One Latino Perspective On ‘The Obama Effect’
*This is the kind of story that needs to face outward. It was published by an NPR program called Code Switch, so hopefully non-Latinos get to hear it and read […]
